The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-20

few months, only TO revive again and
again. till. at the close Of the presidential
campaign OF 1886. 3l3. 900 copies had been
sold in the United States and, as was then
reported. a much larger number in Great
Britain. The translators were soon busy,
and varying editions successfully appeared
/ in French three versions. German four
/ teen versions. Dutch. Danish Swedish.
/ Portuguese. spanish. Italian, Welsh Rus
sian. Polish, Hungarian, Wendlsh, Wal
lachiau. RomMc. Arabic and Armenian.
/ I'm recent years condensed editions of the
work have appeared in Chinese, japanese,
Turkish and other languages, while a
great many qualifications have been
printed in several tongues such az the
story IN wonis of two syllables for children
and sketches of the principal points in
simple sentences AZ last the interest
appeared 90 have died ont: then
the war came and slavery was
destroyed, and once more there
was great popular demand for Uncle
Toms Cabin The original copyright
having long since expired. 10 is impossible
tO estimate with certainty the number Of
copies I'm the English language; but IL
was estimated % exceed a million some
years ago. Not only boz Great Britain but
in all her colonies, ard siuce the war in
every state of the American Union. one
very rarely finds one adult who has not
read the work DC has become great
American classic II has been dramatizcd
In so many forms that theatrical records
DO not give the number
A most amusing feature was the "re-
rfI hot
and varied IN form from the novel 10 the
polemcaI pamphlet These were Uncle
Toms Cabin as 10 Is. go and aunt phulis'
Cabin, "Uncle Tom In England. " Our
Uncle Tom. 80 Uncle Toms Cabin Dis
sected Mrs Stowe Refuted. and
many others, including rhyming reply
from Rosa, of The Louisville Journal.
Without one exception they have sunk
into oblivion The reader of current liter
allure knows nothing Of them. and the
professional writer of memoirs Ike this
has 20 hunt long in second hand book
stores or The garrcts OF ola publishing
houses tO find even one Some of them
had considerable literary merit. too. and
as stories merely the first two before
mentioned wl repay perusal af this day.
Even the Key Co luclc Toms CABIN
issued by Mrs Stowe herself IN 1853,
was neglected and soon forgotten The
seQuels and limitations were even less
regarded Iheoug.nal work stood alone,
wthouta rival bur now chat slavery is
only historic thing. while peace and
complete reunion assure thc calmness
needed for true criticism wc read Il ncle
Tom Cabin with clearer eyes and per
ceIye than with ail MS peculiar charms il
hn- many inIt- A. novel merely 1t is
NOT "a work of arts the plot is simply moth
ing, and thc attempt In The closing chap
tiers 90 bring together the various charac-
ters SOD a~ tO make something like a plot,
is such 1000 oby.0u. failure that W seriously
mars tue symmetry of the work as
whole lhe ENGLISH used in many places
is NOT above criticism, and while the local
descriptions of Ohio are fairly good and
chose of Kentucky not very bad, those Of
New Orleans are lud.crous. painfully at
fault nay almost disgusting To this
day residents off New Orleans who are IN